the wind-up lullaby chords

grace here & asleep in my bed... i'm doing myself some food and i'm going to watch ghost squad in about 45 minutes...

there was a torturous separation from josiah who brought her up here, we'd eaten in the amazon, got back here and me & grace were playing just prior to josiah leaving when she shifted into i want to go with my mummy i don't want to stay in this COLD house...

once josiah could be persuaded to leave i rocked the wailing child to sleep while playing two chords on the piano... later on, once i'd woken her up to get her changed and she had her doll near her she asked me play the chords again... lullaby business, her name sung as well... i love being a godfather...

so i turned the lights down low and i started the wind-up bird chronicle for the second time, it was the first murakami book i read back when i was running that blues workshop & one of my students lent it to me... i'd read everything there was in english a few years before kafka on the shore came out earlier this year, i remember the thrill of that one... now i'm going back to the source again, while grace sleeps in my bed...

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